Nepal clamped its first Covid lockdown on 24 March 2020, and five years later many have forgotten what it was like
All photos: MONIKA DEUPALAKathmandu’s tourist neighbourhood of Thamel has been a ghost town for most of 2020, but just like Pokhara and Chitwan…
Photo: KUNDA DIXITNepal’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAAN) announced on Sunday that it will allow international carriers to resume an unlimited…
All photos: ROBIC UPADHYAYThe complete ban on the sale of alcohol in India’s Bihar state had fostered a booming business in bars and…
Comparisons of satellite images show that the Covid-19 lockdown has resulted in a reduction in the number of wildfires in Nepal in the spring of…
All photos: BIKRAM RAIThe first day of the second lockdown in Kathmandu Valley saw major intersections mostly deserted with main roads heavily…
Photo: KUNDA DIXITAlthough the government had announced that regular domestic and international flights would open from 17 August, the uptick in…
Photo: Marty LoganChildren are collateral damage in the flight against the COVID-19 pandemic: some 4 million of them in South Asia under the age…
After 50 days what is utterly extraordinary has come to seem normal, the unimaginable is commonplace
Three of the musk deer found dead in traps laid by poachers during the COVID-19 lockdown in Sagarmatha National Park on Sunday. Photo: DAWA NURU…
Mohammad Jamshed Ansari and his son Mohammad Nurani Ansari pray in separate rooms on the first day of Ramadan. All photos: BIKRAM RAIMohammad…
With the COVID-19 lockdown officially ending 27 April, the government is expected to extend it but announce a partial easing of restrictions…
At 4:30 AM on a gloomy Friday morning in Frankfurt, Aman Bhattarai gets on a conference call with his colleagues to identify final technical…
All photos: MONIKA DEUPALAOne month into the COVID-19 lockdown, hundreds of temporary migrant workers who have run out of money or been evicted…
Photos: MONIKA DEUPALABhat Bhateni supermarket chain has been allowed to open all seven outlets in Kathmandu starting 18 April with strict…
Going through the motions to quarantine people haphazardly will not prevent an outbreak
The warning by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to punish countries that refuse to repatriate workers wishing to go home by suspending bilateral…
Today is Day 7 of 15 and I’m in it to win it.I am now 64. Some would say that I actually turned 65 when the lunar rat scurried into February…
Nepal Police making an arrest using multifunctional rescue and arrest device during the lockdown. Photo: RSSThe calls started coming at 10:30 at…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIIf there was no COVID-19 epidemic, what would be on the international news lineup this week? Before the pandemic…
Photo: ALISHA SIJAPATIEven before the two-week lockdown, more and more Nepali families with elderly relatives hired nursing care at home.…
Photos: MONIKA DEUPALASpring is the season for Kathmandu Valley’s traditional festivals like Bhaktapur’s Bisket Jatra, Machhindranath in…
HIMALAYAN AIRLIFT: A Qatar Airways Airbus330 takes off from Kathmandu on Saturday with European tourists stranded after Nepal’s COVID-19…
Popular singer and songwriter Samriddhi Rai tweeted this at 4:05 in the morning of Thursday March 26. With the surge in COVID-19 cases around…
